This class contains support for HTTP-specific uses of the properties and methods of the System.Net.WebResponse class. The System.Net.HttpWebResponse class is used to build HTTP stand-alone client applications that send HTTP requests and receive HTTP responses.

You should never directly create an instance of the System.Net.HttpWebResponse class. Instead, use the instance returned by a call to HttpWebRequest.GetResponse. You must call either the System.IO.Stream.Close or the HttpWebResponse.Close method to close the response and release the connection for reuse. It is not necessary to call both System.IO.Stream.Close and HttpWebResponse.Close, but doing so does not cause an error.

Common header information returned from the Internet resource is exposed as properties of the class. See the following table for a complete list. Other headers can be read from the HttpWebResponse.Headers property as name/value pairs.

The following table shows the common HTTP headers that are available through properties of the System.Net.HttpWebResponse class.

Content-Encoding	HttpWebResponse.ContentEncoding
Content-Length	HttpWebResponse.ContentLength
Content-Type	HttpWebResponse.ContentType
Last-Modified	HttpWebResponse.LastModified
Server	HttpWebResponse.Server

The contents of the response from the Internet resource are returned as a System.IO.Stream by calling the HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream method.

All public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.

Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.x.x, 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0